170 | Christopher Mims: Inside the Supply Chain Crisis

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop Christopher Mims, author of Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy and Wall Street Journal technology columnist, joins The Realignment to tell the story of the worldwide supply chain crunch, from the 2018 trade war between China and the U.S. to the decline of the trucking industry.

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0:00.0	Mars from Sogger here, welcome back to the Realignment.
0:04.0	The bad news about solving these giant systemic problems is you can only ever make incremental
0:17.7	difference in any of them.
0:19.0	The good news is, hey, pick a lane, you can make an incremental difference in any of them.
0:25.8	If you're a voter, if you're a politician, if you're an entrepreneur, if you're a think-ful of
0:29.5	answer, there are a million problems out there where lots of people just kind of beavering
0:37.1	away at them because they can't not nates these small differences, which cumulatively snowball
0:46.0	until you wake up one day and the world's most valuable energy company is the renewable
0:51.6	energy company.
0:52.6	That's true today.
0:53.6	Who would have predicted that 20 years ago?
0:56.0	Exxon mobile, maybe we should stop drilling for oil and gas, it's high risk, we're going
1:00.3	to get tax on the carbon.
1:01.9	Meanwhile, a Spanish company is like, we're going to keep putting up solar panels and
1:08.2	offshore wind.
1:10.4	That came about through just millions of small incremental decisions, you know.
1:24.2	Hey everybody, good morning, happy Tuesday.
1:26.8	It's a especially happy Tuesday for Sagar and I because we have gotten back from the
1:32.6	Realignment Conference.
1:33.6	It was last Friday.
1:35.2	It was incredible, special shout out to Andy C. Alex E. Aaron B. Adam M. Really just
1:44.9	showed out, not going to throw any weirdos, he always directions.
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